Leaked Data Reveals A Big Gender Pay Gap At The Top Of Deloitte

In the mid-2000s, the auditing and consulting firm Deloitte had a
gender pay problem.

This chart
comes from Fusion, which analyzed 2005 salary information for
over 30,000 employees. The data was leaked as part of the major
Sony Pictures hack. According to Kevin Roose, the information
appeared to come from the computer of a current HR employee at
Sony who used to work at Deloitte and still had the files on her
computer.

The info includes many of the top-paid people at Deloitte,
including more than 1,000 directors.

Roose reports that "the top 10 highest earners are all men, as
are 22 of the top 25, 43 of the top 50, and 85 of the top 100."
He says that this appears to be a compilation of data for an
internal study in 2006 about whether there was racial or gender
discrimination going on at the company.

Fifty-eight groups within the company were examined. Thirty-four
seemed to have significant results regarding gender or race.
Eighteen were considered "problematic based on both
regressions & t-tests." Deloitte apparently looked into those
18 groups, although representatives from the company have not yet
responded to requests for comment.

While you can see from the chart that women make less than
men at all levels, the gap appears to widen near the range of
$75,000 to $80,000. The top-paid woman makes 25% less in salary
than the top-paid man (this appears to be just salary, not total
comp). And, from a rough estimate looking at the chart,
there appear to be about twice as many men making $100,000
as women.

Men make up more than half of the total workforce at
Deloitte, but not by much. They are about
55%, according to Fusion's Felix Salmon.